Music composer, Kielen King.

“Run-DMC First Said a DJ Could be a Band.” -Chuck D

On the next Outlook Portland (Sunday, 6:30am, on NW32 TV)…

Throughout human history, music has adapted, evolved, and cross-pollinated, each amalgam mixing and swirling the disparate forms together, often to create something staggeringly new.

One thing, however, remains a constant: the player, the singer, the songwriter. In a room or in a studio, attempting a kind of artistic alchemy: the transformation of imagination into physical form. To capture -on tape, paper, or hard drive- what exists only as a free-floating magic within the creative center.

Sometimes, it seems so amazing that it’s a wonder it ever happens at all.

On this week’s Outlook Portland, we’ll speak with Kielen King, a Portland musician whose latest idea has been successfully transferred into the realm of the real. His past albums include Soundtrack for an Automated Night and (as part of Azure Noir) Addicted to Blue. His new project is Star Pilot’s Lament: A Musical Sci-Fi Epic.

The show will also feature another “Outlook Portland Editorial Reply”, brought to you by our marquee sponsor, Things From Another World. This week’s guest editorialist: Paul Stanley of KISS…as a rubber duck.

Outlook Portland, Sunday at 6:30am, only on NW32 TV…the home of Gossip Girl, Vampire Diaries, and Rick Emerson.

Ryan White this Sunday.

How does a kid from Ann Arbor, Michigan end up as the Music Editor for The Oregonian? It’s a (relatively) long but (very) entertaining journey–one filled with idealism, the collision of fantasy with reality, and a belief in the endlessly-redemptive power of music.

On Sunday’s Outlook Portland, we speak with Oregonian music writer Ryan White. It’s required viewing for anyone who loves music, sports (he spent eleven years as a sports writer at the O before making the leap to music), the power of the written word, and/or the often-unbelievable trek between Here and There.

Outlook Portland this Sunday morning (6:30am on Northwest 32 TV.)